New PATC Course: HPC code optimisation workshop @ LRZ

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2012

This deliverable has been prepared by the responsible Work Package of the Project in accordance with the Consortium Agreement and the Grant Agreement n° RI-261557. It solely reflects the opinion of the parties to such agreements on a collective basis in the context of the Project and to the extent foreseen in such agreements. Please note that even though all participants to the Project are members of PRACE AISBL, this deliverable has not been approved by the Council of PRACE AISBL and therefore does not emanate from it nor should it be considered to reflect PRACE AISBL's individual opinion.

Proceedings of the 2011 TeraGrid Conference on Extreme Digital Discovery - TG '11, 2011

Many new users of TeraGrid or other HPC resources are scientists or other domain experts by training and are not necessarily familiar with core principles, practices, and resources within the HPC community. As a result, they often make inefficient use of their own time and effort and of the computing resources as well. In this work, we present a training roadmap for new members of the HPC community. These new users benefit from a basic understanding of the the key concepts, technologies, and tools outlined in the roadmap, even if they are not required to develop immediate proficiency in all of them. In addition to providing a brief overview of a wide variety of topics, the roadmap includes links and pointers to numerous resources that users can refer to for their own training as the need arises.

… Workshop On Software …, 2004

Studying Code Development for High Performance Computing: The HPCS Program Jeff Carver1, Sima Asgari1, Victor Basili1, 2, Lorin Hochstein1, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth1, Forrest Shull2, Marv Zelkowitz1, 2 1University of Maryland, College Park 2Fraunhofer Center ...

The Journal of Computational Science Education, 2019

The HPC community has always considered the training of new and existing HPC practitioners to be of high importance to its growth. This diversification of HPC practitioners challenges the traditional training approaches, which are not able to satisfy the specific needs of users, often coming from non-traditionally HPC disciplines, and only interested in learning a particular set of competences. Challenges for HPC centres are to identify and overcome the gaps in users' knowledge, while users struggle to identify relevant skills. We have developed a first version of an HPC certification program that would clearly categorize, define, and examine competences. Making clear what skills are required of or recommended for a competent HPC user would benefit both the HPC service providers and practitioners. Moreover, it would allow centres to bundle together skills that are most beneficial for specific user roles and scientific domains. From the perspective of content providers, existing training material can be mapped to competences allowing users to quickly identify and learn the skills they require. Finally, the certificates recognized by the whole HPC community simplify inter-comparison of independently offered courses and provide additional incentive for participation.

PRACE Deliverables, 2019

1995

Abstract Helping the high-performance computing and communications (HPCC) community to share software and information, the National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE) is an Internet-accessible resource that promotes the exchange of software and information among those involved with HPCC. Now in its infancy, the NHSE will link varied discipline-oriented repositories of software and documents, and encourage Grand Challenge teams and other members of the HPCC community to contribute to these repositories and use them.

1998

This paper describes an ongoing effort supported by ARPA PCRC (Parallel Compiler Runtime Consortium) project. In particular, we discuess the design and implementation of an HPF compilation system based on PCRC runtime. The approaches to issues such as directive analysis and communication detection are discussed in detail. The discussion includes fragments of code generated by the compiler.

Communications of The ACM, 2022

The Training Work Package (WP4) of the PRACE Fifth Implementation Phase (PRACE-5IP) project is responsible for the training activities of PRACE. In addition to the extensive programme of face-to-face training delivered by the PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs) and PRACE Training Centres (PTCs), the training activities also include the On-demand training events, a series of online training offerings such as the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the training code repository (CodeVault) and the training portal. This deliverable is a report of all the PRACE-5IP training activities during the initial 15 months of the project. PRACE-5IP continued the training activities of PRACE-4IP starting from February 2017. Between February 2017 and April 2018, the six PATCs delivered 103 courses, 290 course-days with 2,396 participants, while the four PTCs delivered 12 courses, 21 course-days with 351 participants. The feedback responses received have been overwhelmingly positive (8.5/10 average overall rating for PATC courses). Similarly, the PRACE Seasonal Schools in PRACE-5IP have been carefully selected via a formal selection process. The Seasonal Schools scheduled for this reporting period, namely the Autumn School 2017 in Gdańsk, Poland and the Winter Seasonal School 2018 in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, attracted 39 attendees in total, and obtained high overall ratings. In addition, WP4 continued the collaboration with the Centres of Excellence (CoEs) where a number of On-demand events were organised. Finally, WP4 co-organised the 2017 International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences in Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, from 25-30June 2017. All forms of face-to-face and online training are complementary. They contribute to the success of the PRACE training programme, and should be continued in future PRACE HPC training activities. In accordance with the PRACE-5IP goals, the majority of training events also address industrial users, and motivate them by showing the importance and benefits of HPC for the practice.